March 31st, 2018

​United States v. Perales

Docket: 17-40005
Opinion Date: March 30, 2018
Judge: Carl E. Stewart
Areas of Law: Criminal Law

The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress several bundles of cocaine discovered and seized after he consented to the search of his vehicle. The court held that the district court did not clearly err in finding that defendant's consent to the search was voluntary where the law enforcement agent did not use coercive police procedures to make defendant consent to the search of his vehicle.